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D. BOOKER. Device for Elevating Wagon-Bodies.

No. 226,024. Patented Mar. 30,1880.

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n ll lll lhvrrnn STATES DAVID BOOKER, OF EDOM, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANCIS A. MAYS, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR ELEVATING WAGON-BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,024, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed December 10, 1879. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID BOOKER, of Edom, in the county of Van Zandt and State of Texas, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Devices for Elevating Wagon-Bodies; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a side view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention relates to an improved'device for raising or lifting wagon-bodies off the runninggear and keeping them suspended under the roof of a barn or other roofed struct ure while not in use, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents a barn or other structure, of which, however, only a skeleton view is shown, for the purpose of better illustrating the parts constituting my invention.

In the rafters B B, under the roof of the structure, is journaled a shaft, 0, provided with fixed band-wheels or pulleys D D. To the periphery of the latter cords or ropes E E are secured, and the latter, after being wound upon the pulleys, are passed down and attached to a shaft, F, journaled in suitable hearings in the uprights G G, and provided with a crank or handle, H. Shaft F is provided with a ratchet-wheel, I, engaging a spring-pawl, J, which, by an eccentric lever, K, may be thrown into or out of operation. A brake-lever, L, bearing upon shaft F, is connected by a rod, M, with a lever, N, having its fulcrum in one of the uprights G, and provided with a handle, 0, and catch 1?, engaging a ratchet-bar, Q, by means of which arrangement suitable friction of the brake-1e ver upon shaft F may be exerted and maintained.

Ropes It It, secured to and wound upon the ends of the shaft 0, carry at their lower ends frames S S, adapted to fit over the ends of an ordinary wagon-body, as represented in the drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

After driving the wagon into the barn the frames S S are adjusted upon the ends of the wagon body. Then by turning the crank upon shaft F the body may be lifted to any desired elevation. To let it down it is only necessary to release pawlJ from ratchet I,when the descent may be regulated by the brake.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The combination, with a barn or other roofed structure, of the shaft 0, having pul leys D D, ropes It 1%, frames S S, ropes E E, shaft F, having crank H and ratchet-wheel l, pawl J, eccentric lever K, brake-lever L, rod M, lever N, having catch P, and ratchet-bar Q, all arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID BOOKER.

Witnesses THOMAS Reasons, CHARLES OArRoN. 

